Recent content by jp928

I have used a cover outdoors once, but it ended badly due to extensive mould occurring inside the car. Things to watch for - best fitted with 2 people, as dragging a cover over single handed can be a chore; get the lightest unit available; remove regularly to allow the interior to breathe and...

Check out this list...note layout due to printing from XL. The notes at the end are sometimes very relevant.

I suspect 3d scanning and printing would be cheapest way to recreate these. Friend who is very good with copying FG items reckoned it would be a lot of work to make them using conventional means.

Unlikely the cap , as usually some of the contacts would work. Rotor shorting to ground maybe. Check for wiring inside dizzy is isolated where it should be. Clean the rotor and inside the cap, and check the carbon brush in the cap centre is contacting the rotor.

Looking in at the engine, on your right side, below the cover that has the hose to the top of radiator is the sensor - points to the right. Single wire.

Doing a lot of work there, well done. Rubber seal under the heater is 369294, also used in Range Rover- available here - Foam Gasket - Heater Seal to Bulkhead (FF010551) for Range Rover 1970-85 The heater core is 2 pass type - indicated by input and output are at same end. If the end without...

You are very welcome - this is what we are here for, to help people keep these on the road, and what comes around, goes around.

Ron, I was confused initially, but finding that spring in another booster of the period reassured me. I never found one in a diagram of a Lockheed unit, but PBR documentation shows such a spring in their models, so now convinced.

Dont recall now - it was 30+ years ago now. Must have been something about it crabbing. A group of used to travel in convoy when we went exploring, changing lanes on freeways so we could keep each other in sight, and it would be easy to observe a car's tracking.

You mean 'yet to find a car ISN'T' ? Had S2 Disco once, where the fit of the wheels in the arches looked fine (ie symmetrical), but the wheelbases L-R measured different.....???

Good to know, thanks.

A bit of luck lately. Looked for ages for a windage tray, finally found one used on WINS! Then I found an SD1 oil pickup locally, complete with brace. Then I found the #4 main cap on my 3.9 block had a threaded hole for the brace bolt, which I hadnt noticed before. Had to drill the windage tray...

Locate the sensor on the engine. pull the wire and ground it to engine - gauge should now go full scale. If yes lead and gauge are good, sensor is bad. If no, lead or gauge is bad - dismount the instrument panel, there is a volatge stabilizer to give 10v to temp gauge and another - pushed onto 2...

Note that the oiling system is not symmetrical. The RHS oil gallery down the block supplies the RHS lifters and main bearings and rods, but the LHS gallery ONLY supplies that sides lifters. One mod suggested by Hammill is to drill feed holes to the 3 centre mains from the LHS gallery (not a...

Wish I had found this thread before I posted my query on the larger dia spring! At this age the booster has almost certainly been replaced/overhauled before, so the spring may have been added already if there was a change in the air valve kit parts. Recently bought kit did not include a new...